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Harley MS 4742

Record Id:

040-002050585

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002050585

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000859.0x000104

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 4742

Title:

Legal treatises

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-16v: 'Consultationes tres de quæstionibus legis feudalis'.

ff. 17r-32r: 'Rerum criminalium tractatus continens expositionem titulorum quadragesimi octavi ff[orum], Libri, cum interpretatione philosophicæ l[is]. Respiciendum [ff] de pœnis in qua quid præstare judex, aut quomodo procedere, an [scm] allegata et probate, vel [scm] conscientiam judicare debeat, deinde demonstrabitur cum aliis multarum quæstionum decisionibus, Anno Domini 1589'; ending: 'Finis Tractatus Criminalium Anno Domini 1589'.

ff. 33r-41r: 'Ad Titulum Quintum Libri Quarti Codicis de Condutione [sic] in debiti Anno Domini 1588 a Februarij'; ending: 'Finis Tituli […] a Libri Codicis De Conutione in debiti 1588 a Februarij'.

ff. 42r-93v: 'Ad Titulum Libri Secundi Digestorum de Pactis anno Domini 1588 a Februarij'.

ff. 94r-134v: 'In Titulum De Vulgari et Pupillari Substitutione in Infortiato a Doctissimo JC PG Praelectum anno 1588 26 Aprilis'; ending: 'Finis Tractatus vulgaris substitutionis impositus a Doctissimo viro D Petro Gregorio [Pierre Grégoire (b. c. 1540, d. 1597), French jurist and philosopher] […] Doctore et primario professore dignissimo 1588'.

ff. 135r-191r: 'In Titulum Sexagesimum Sextum 4 Libri Codicis De Jure emphiteutico Anno Domini 1588 Septimo die Januarij D Hordall huius academiæ professore dignissimo'; ending: 'Finis Tituli De contractu emphiteutico 4 die Aprilis 1588'.

ff. 192r-248v: 'Tractatus In Universam Materiam Servitutum tam Urbanorum quam Rusticorum Prædiiorum Decimo die Aprilis 1589'.

The manuscript contains a later addition:

f. 1r: Inscriptions in English and Latin, including: ''God keepe you' amd 'This is my mind that consilia Ba[…] the best […] of any counsels that'; added in the late 16th or early 17th century.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002050585

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 4742 : Legal treatises

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[4741]/040-002050585

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1588

End Date:

1589

Date Range:

1588-1589

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 160 mm (text space: 150 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 248 (+ 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 93 and f. 94 (f. [93a]; 1 between f. 134 and f. 135; and 3 between f. 191 and f. 192; 1 unfoliated paper stub after f. 32; and 1 after f. [93a].

Collation: Each quire has been mounted separately onto a paper guard.

Script: Cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 30 August 1967.

Custodial History:

Origin:

? England.

Provenance:

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 198.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

England